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To: The Vet who wrote (6470)	5/9/2009 3:05:18 AM
From: Fishfinder	Respond to of 16955

Have you seen them in action?? If you had, I'd be sure that you would refute all these lightning speed senarios I don't know about any of that math stuff, but I've been very close to these things and they most certainly don't look or sound as though they go ANYWHERE near the word fast. Never mind 650mph. I don't know where people get these sort of stats.

To: The Vet who wrote (6470)	5/9/2009 9:34:54 AM
From: gg cox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16955

Your math looks good to me..C=pye D reuk.co.uk imperialtometric.com

To: The Vet who wrote (6470)	5/9/2009 11:41:48 AM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16955

Your not going to see any wind turbine exceeding the speed of sound at the wing tips because drag goes up dramatically. In fact some turbines actually slow down as wind speeds increase and the turbine still generates much more power! (The hint to the way it does this is in the generator design) None of them get anywhere near the speed of sound and never will. Simple aerodynamics and physics.